I swear, South America is home to all of the surrealist artists. Salvador Dali, Oscar Grillo, Carlos Nine, these guys (and even more!) are all monsters and their work just crushes the hell out of any edgy or appalling art from North American artists that I've seen. What do they eat down there?

I discovered Nine while in Rome a couple years ago while browsing in a bandes dessinee/fumetti shoppe and bought Nine's La Chatte etc. The work in that is less modeled and rendered out than the examples here and far more impressionistic. A wonderful sexuality to his stuff.

Well, probably you'll like Enrique Breccia, Mr. K.Nine is someone I've been recommended zillion times... many people in Argentina consider him "the man" to be sincere, tho he's a bit boring. There's something about the subjects he chooses and how he handles them which makes me say "ah". The same happens with Breccia. Grillo, on the other hand, no matter if it's a seagull taking a piss or a woman looking fixedly at a man he makes the view fascinating.

John! you should check other argentinian artists as well; we have a good tradition of amazing graphic art.Quino is at the top of my list, but i doubt you haven't heard about him already. Theres a publication called Fierro here, which groups a lot of argentinian comic and cartoonists, Nine amongst them. Ill try to scan and upload one so you can see for yourself.